Volkswagen will begin recalling certain diesel-engine vehicles in Germany in January 2016.

Volkswagen has set a tentative date for its German recall and added an additional 60,000 cars to the call back.

Monday, a German news outlet reported that Volkswagen would recall 2.46 million cars in its native Germany that were outfitted with emission-masking software used to cheat environmental protection laws.

The German recall is set to include 1.54 million Volkswagen-brand cars and light commercial vehicles, as well as 531,813 from Audi, another 286,970 at Skoda and 104,197 at the Seat brand, according to Reuters and Automotive News.

These vehicles are among the roughly 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide that contain the software, which artificially reduces nitrogen oxide emissions during lab testing and vehicle inspections. About half 8.5 million TDI vehicles will be recalled in the European Union as well another half million in the U.S. alone.

A measuring hose for emissions inspections in diesel engines sticks in the exhaust tube of a Volkswagen (VW) Golf 2,0 TDI diesel car at a garage in Frankfurt an der Oder, eastern Germany, on October 1, 2015.

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Some of the vehicles, which are built with Volkswagen's TDI engine platform, actually produce 40 times the allowed amount of nitrogen oxide.